Statismo

Statismo is minimal collector of custom metrics for django applications. It aggregates statistics into a configurable backend before periodically pushing them to an external service such as Cloudwatch.

Currently, supports the following backends:

• Django's database
• Redis

And the following services:

• AWS Cloudwatch

Installation

To install statismo, simply run:

pip install statismo

To use statismo with redis:

pip install statismo[redis]

Configuration

Add statismo to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    'statismo',
]

Add the following settings to your settings.py to use the django database collector, which is suitable for small to medium-sized applications:

STATISMO_METRIC_COLLECTOR = 'statismo.collectors.db.DatabaseCollector'

For larger applications, you may want to use the Redis collector:

STATISMO_METRIC_COLLECTOR = 'statismo.collectors.redis.RedisCollector'
STATISMO_METRIC_URL = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'

Finally, to use a custom namespace for your metrics other than the default of statismo, add the following setting:

STATISMO_METRIC_NAMESPACE = 'myapp'

Finally, the periodic task that uploads metrics needs to be enabled. If you're using Celery's django integration, this can be done by adding the following to your settings.py:

CELERY_BEAT_SCHEDULE = {
    "accumulate-metrics-every-5-minutes": {
        "task": "statismo.tasks.accumulate_metrics",
        "schedule": 60 * 5,
    }
}